With all the verbal sparring occurring in the presidential campaign, when I saw the following headline, I thought the former President might be able to distinguish the policies of Mrs. Clinton from those of Senator Obama.

Bill Clinton wades in to defend Hillary’s reputation

Okay, I thought, maybe I will learn something of the Senator’s planned healthcare program which has been promoted by her campaign or her stance on the War on Terror, or maybe something about her plans for Social Security. Wrong again. Instead, according to the quotes available it was no more than a she’s better than him interview.

Moving past that, something else caught my eye. Did you know that terrorism did not exist in 1992? I recall terrorist attacks far earlier than that but it seems former President Clinton has no recollection of there being any such thing.

Asked about his own experience when he became President aged 46 - the same age as Mr Obama is now - Mr Clinton said that in contrast to 1992, “we didn’t have the terror threat. We didn’t have the troops in Iraq.

Alright then, no troops in Iraq, I’ll give to that but no terror threats? I wonder if he remembers the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Ramzi Yousef entered this country in 1992..I consider that a terror threat.

And, whether purveyors of terrorism commit their acts on US soil or abroad should have no distinction to a sitting President, so let’s consider this list:

1992
January 17: Eight Protestant British army contractors are killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.
February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injuried by East Turkestan Islamic Movement two bus bombs in Urumqi (see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings)
February 28, 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.
March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by “Islamic Jihad” in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.
April 10, 1992: A large bomb explodes in St Mary Axe in the City of London killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange is completely destroyed.
September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.[76]
October 12, 1992: A device explodes in the gents’ toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden killing one person and injuring four others.
November 11: Bombs explode in nine Colombian cities, leaving one person dead and 35 injured. The Medellín Cartel is held responsible for the attacks.[77]
December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.[78]
December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.[79

The citizens of Israel suffered at the hands of terrorists in 1992, and I would bet there were many other incidents which either were not reported or I simply have neglected to locate through limited research.

Terrorism existed long before President Clinton took the Oath of Office and will exist long past the time President Bush retires to Texas. I suppose it just depends on what your definition of terror is….in the US terror, abroad??????.